[Python-Dev] math.rint bites the dust (original) (raw)

Peter Schneider-Kamp nowonder@nowonder.de
Sun, 06 Aug 2000 23🔞22 +0000

Guido van Rossum wrote:

After a brief consult with Tim, I've decided to drop math.rint() -- it's not standard C, can't be implemented in portable C, and its naive (non-IEEE-754-aware) effect can easily be had in other ways.

If this is because of Bug #111162, things can be fixed easily. (as I said in another post just some minutes ago, I just need to recommit the changes made after cnri-16-start.)

I wouldn't be terribly concerned about its (maybe temporary) death, though. After I learned more about it I am sure I want to use round() rather than math.rint().

floating-disap-point-ed-ly y'rs Peter

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